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History is really His Story. God is at work throughout history. This today in history site is compiled by Tamera Lynn Kraft. It isn't complete but highlights interesting events in history from a Christian perspective.Date in History
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Today in HisStory – March 4
Nero was given the title princeps iuventutis, head of the youth. Later, he would become Roman Emperor and great persecutor of Christians, including the one who killed Peter, Paul, and other apostles, (51 AD) Saint Adrian of Nicomedia was martyred … Continue reading →
Posted in 03 March, AD 0051, AD 0303, AD 1628, AD 1681, AD 1774, AD 1776, AD 1789, AD 1791, AD 1792, AD 1793, AD 1797, AD 1801, AD 1805, AD 1809, AD 1826, AD 1837, AD 1841, AD 1849, AD 1850, AD 1861, AD 1863, AD 1866, AD 1868, AD 1881, AD 1894, AD 1902, AD 1906, AD 1918, AD 1924, AD 1930, AD 1933, AD 1936, AD 1942, AD 1945, AD 1960, AD 1963, AD 1966, AD 1979, AD 1983, AD 1985, AD 2009, AD 2011, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory March 3
Congress established the US Mint. (1791) First US internal revenue act was enacted. It taxed distilled spirits and carriages. (1791) Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church. (1794) First impeachment trial of a US federal judge, John Pickering, began. … Continue reading →
Posted in 03 March, AD 1791, AD 1794, AD 1803, AD 1805, AD 1812, AD 1813, AD 1815, AD 1817, AD 1820, AD 1829, AD 1837, AD 1842, AD 1845, AD 1847, AD 1849, AD 1853, AD 1855, AD 1861, AD 1862, AD 1863, AD 1865, AD 1871, AD 1873, AD 1879, AD 1885, AD 1887, AD 1891, AD 1899, AD 1900, AD 1903, AD 1904, AD 1910, AD 1921, AD 1923, AD 1931, AD 1933, AD 1939, AD 1943, AD 1959, AD 1972, AD 1991, AD 2013, AD 2017, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – February 24
King Ethelbert of Kent in England died. He was converted to Christianity by St. Augustine. (616 AD) St Francis of Assisi received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy. (1208) Antibaptists voted to accept a confession of faith now known as the … Continue reading →
Posted in 02 February, AD 0616, AD 1208, AD 1527, AD 1582, AD 1803, AD 1807, AD 1821, AD 1836, AD 1855, AD 1860, AD 1863, AD 1868, AD 1873, AD 1875, AD 1895, AD 1909, AD 1915, AD 1917, AD 1923, AD 1924, AD 1938, AD 1942, AD 1946, AD 1948, AD 1949, AD 1968, AD 1981, AD 1997, AD 2008, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – February 10
Apostle Paul may have been shipwrecked at Malta on this date. (60 AD) The St. Scholastica’s Day riot broke out in Oxford, England. In two days, it left 62 scholars and 30 locals dead. (1355) American Indians captured Mary Rowlandson … Continue reading →
Today in HisStory – February 3
Anskar, an early English or Irish missionary who had tried repeatedly to evangelize Scandinavia, died. (865 AD) Mongols surrounded the city of Vladimir, whose citizens, including Orthodox Christians, vowed to resist to the last man to defend God’s churches. (1238) … Continue reading →
Posted in 02 February, AD 0865, AD 1238, AD 1377, AD 1451, AD 1468, AD 1480, AD 1509, AD 1690, AD 1738, AD 1743, AD 1783, AD 1788, AD 1809, AD 1815, AD 1836, AD 1855, AD 1863, AD 1864, AD 1870, AD 1882, AD 1889, AD 1913, AD 1917, AD 1930, AD 1931, AD 1933, AD 1941, AD 1943, AD 1944, AD 1945, AD 1947, AD 1950, AD 1959, AD 1962, AD 1966, AD 1998, AD 2005, AD 2018, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – February 2
Giovanni da Plano Carpini set out for the heart of Mongol Asia to deliver the Gospel to Genghis Khan. (1246) Jordan of Trebizond was beheaded in Constantinople by Muslims. Accused of mocking their prophet, he refused to convert to Islam … Continue reading →
Posted in 02 February, AD 1246, AD 1650, AD 1653, AD 1709, AD 1738, AD 1784, AD 1802, AD 1812, AD 1847, AD 1848, AD 1863, AD 1864, AD 1881, AD 1887, AD 1893, AD 1900, AD 1901, AD 1911, AD 1912, AD 1922, AD 1923, AD 1925, AD 1926, AD 1932, AD 1933, AD 1935, AD 1940, AD 1942, AD 1943, AD 1944, AD 1952, AD 1955, AD 1959, AD 1962, AD 1964, AD 1971, AD 1972, AD 1977, AD 1996, AD 2016, AD 2018, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 31
Athanasius returned to Alexandria where he spent the last seven years of his life after having been exiled five times for his faith. (366 AD) Guy Fawkes, a chief conspirator in the plot to blow up the British Parliament building, … Continue reading →
Today in HisStory – January 29
Abbot Gildas, who gave us the earliest history we have of the British Celts, died. (570 AD) Priest Ulrich Zwingli presented Sixty-Seven Articles for the consideration of Zurich including these: The sum and substance of the Gospel is that our Lord … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 0570, AD 1523, AD 1555, AD 1595, AD 1737, AD 1781, AD 1785, AD 1802, AD 1820, AD 1834, AD 1840, AD 1845, AD 1850, AD 1856, AD 1861, AD 1863, AD 1879, AD 1882, AD 1886, AD 1892, AD 1896, AD 1905, AD 1907, AD 1917, AD 1920, AD 1921, AD 1924, AD 1929, AD 1936, AD 1944, AD 1959, AD 1966, AD 1985, AD 1989, AD 2002, AD 2014, AD 2015, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 26
Pentateuch, the Jewish Bible, was first printed as a book in Bologna, Italy. (1482) Spanish explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon became the first European to set foot in Brazil. (1500) Lisbon was hit by an earthquake. Around 30,000 died. (1531) The … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 1482, AD 1500, AD 1531, AD 1564, AD 1681, AD 1697, AD 1784, AD 1788, AD 1837, AD 1838, AD 1841, AD 1861, AD 1862, AD 1863, AD 1870, AD 1871, AD 1905, AD 1906, AD 1926, AD 1930, AD 1934, AD 1940, AD 1948, AD 1949, AD 1954, AD 1962, AD 1967, AD 1970, AD 1996, AD 1998, AD 2005, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 25
English King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn, his second wife. (1533) Muslims in Constantinople beheaded Auxentius who had refused to convert to Islam despite being beaten with an iron bar. (1720) American Revolutionary War: Americans dragged a cannon up hill to fight … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 1533, AD 1720, AD 1775, AD 1776, AD 1787, AD 1840, AD 1858, AD 1863, AD 1870, AD 1877, AD 1881, AD 1890, AD 1910, AD 1918, AD 1919, AD 1924, AD 1944, AD 1949, AD 1950, AD 1961, AD 1964, AD 1968, AD 1971, AD 1981, AD 1983, AD 1986, AD 2011, AD 2018, Date, Year
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